Loosely connected hacking collective Anonymous claimed responsibility for making the CIA's website inaccessible on Friday - but later said it was just reporting the event.
The apparent distributed denial of service attack against the spy agency's web presence follows a week after the release of a recording of a conference call …

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Well, actually...

Anonymous is correct. Their original tweet referenced an article from rt.com that claimed Anonymous took down the CIA site. Their subsequent tweets had terms like "apparently" in them, indicating that they were not the source of the information.

Or...

Maybe they were using words like "apparently" because there is no way of knowing if anyone has done anything as part of "Anonymous", which has the rather convenient side effect of allowing them to do whatever they want and then say it wasn't them, should public opinion be outraged.